@carmenjoyimes@JRichMiddleton While God told Abe to send Hagar away, the irresponsible manner in which Abe did so is on him. But the fact that God let her get to the point of desperately watching her son die before he intervened troubles me. Thanks for giving me some new thoughts though. Good bless you!
@carmenjoyimes I really appreciate your teaching on the OT. I find the Genesis passages of Abram's treatment of Hagar and Ishmael as well as his willingness to sacrifice Isaac deeply troubling.
@carmenjoyimes@JRichMiddleton I appreciate your reply. Yes, I have considered the angle that God may have been testing Abe, in which case he seems to have failed. Yet Hebrews send to look on his response favorably.
@_ZachFoster "Married to Another Man" by Ghada Karmi and "A line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East" by James Barr
@Matt_Rehrer No. Because eschatology forms the foundation of Christians' view of our world, as well as foreign policy that they support or promote. Particularly in the middle east, this can be deadly at worst, or cause dismissive attitudes toward injustice at best.
#BREAKING: Palestinian doctor Abdullah Abu al-Teen has succumbed to the wounds he sustained from Israeli gunfire during a military raid on the city and camp of #Jenin. He was trying to save casualties shot by Israeli soldiers when the latter shot him in the head.
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Watch: Israeli forces open fire at a Palestinian paramedic as he was trying to rescue another Palestinian shot by Israeli gunfire during the Israeli military raid on the city and camp of Jenin.
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